The Phaedra Chronicles – The Box: Female-driven Detective Mystery

New relationships can be a challenge, especially when one person wants to move forward, but the other wants to hold onto the status quo. That’s what Tyler told me our problem had become. He was heading out on the 2-month long farewell tour for his metal band Eros, and I was left with no work from SIA, the investigations company I work for, feeling seriously uncertain about my ongoing career as a PI. Amidst all that, Ty and I had been having contentious episodes, which added to the anxiety over my future. I didn’t need him pushing me to make decisions I wasn’t ready to make. I dug in my heels…but so did he. And then my brother Nick delivered a trunk that I’d inherited from my great aunt Mary – a trunk I’d never before bothered to open. It contained items from her time working for the OSS after World War 2 as part of the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives Section G-5, going through a trove of items stolen by the Nazis in an effort to return those items to their rightful owners. But the trunk contained a mystery that Aunt Mary had uncharacteristically stolen from the salt mine repository at Altaussee where she worked, and she’d left it to me, convinced that I would be able to solve that mystery, at the same time warning me of someone’s obsession with obtaining it by whatever means necessary. But decades after she’d taken it, who could possibly still be alive to carry out their obsession? That’s how I came to be in possession of the enigmatic copper box with a distinctive design on its top and no visible means of opening it. It was going to require all my investigative skills, my tenacity, and my dogged curiosity to solve the mystery of The Box. But was I being unnecessarily paranoid, like Tyler was accusing me of, or was my gut instinct correct – that someone, so many years later, did indeed want that damned box desperately? Well, that wasn’t going to stop me! —- ISBN: 9798877549791